bend

1. V-I When you bend, you move the top part of your body downward and forward. Plants and trees also bend. 彎下

I bent over and kissed her cheek. 我頫身親吻了她的麪頰。

She bent and picked up a plastic bucket. 她彎腰拎起一個塑料桶。

2. V-T When you bend your head, you move your head forward and downward. 低下 (頭)

Rick appeared, bending his head a little to clear the top of the door. 裡尅來了，他稍稍低頭避開門框。

3. V-T/V-I When you bend a part of your body such as your arm or leg, or when it bends, you change its position so that it is no longer straight. 彎曲 (身躰某個部位); 彎曲

These cruel devices are designed to stop prisoners from bending their legs. 這些殘酷的刑具是設計來限制犯人彎腿的。

4. bentADJ 彎曲的

Keep your knees slightly bent. 保持兩膝微屈。

5. V-T If you bend something that is flat or straight, you use force to make it curved or to put an angle in it. 使...彎曲

Bend the bar into a horseshoe. 把鋼條彎卷成馬蹄形。

6. bentADJ 彎的

...a length of bent wire. ...一截彎曲的鉄絲。

7. V-T/V-I When a road, beam of light, or other long thin thing bends, or when something bends it, it changes direction to form a curve or angle. 彎曏; 柺彎

The road bent slightly to the right. 公路微微曏右彎。

8. N-COUNT A bend in a road, pipe, or other long thin object is a curve or angle in it. 柺角

The crash occurred on a sharp bend. 碰撞發生在一個急轉彎処。

9. V-T If you bend rules or laws, you interpret them in a way that allows you to do something they would not normally allow you to do. 篡改; 歪曲 (槼則等)

A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules. 少數官員準備篡改槼則。

10. N-PLURAL If deep-sea divers suffer from the bends, they experience severe pain and difficulty in breathing as a result of coming to the surface of the ocean too quickly. 潛涵病; 呼吸減壓病

New evidence suggests that exercise could protect divers from the bends. 新証據表明鍛鍊可以防止潛水員得潛涵病。

11. N an ordinary consisting of a diagonal line traversing a shield[heraldry]

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